Vascular Health Assessment of The Hypertensive Patients (VASOTENS) Registry: Study Protocol of an International, Web-Based Telemonitoring Registry for Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness

Stefano Omboni   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Igor N Posokhov   ^{2 *} , MD, PhD ;   Gianfranco Parati   ³ , MD ;   Alberto Avolio   ⁴ , BE, PhD ;   Anatoly N Rogoza   ⁵ , DSc ;   Yulia V Kotovskaya   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Giuseppe Mulè   ⁷ , MD ;   Maria Lorenza Muiesan   ⁸ , MD ;   Iana A Orlova   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Elena A Grigoricheva   ¹⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Ernesto Cardona Muñoz   ¹¹ , MD ;   Parounak H Zelveian   ¹² , MD ;   Telmo Pereira   ¹³ , MSc, PhD ;   João Manuel Peixoto Maldonado   ¹⁴ , MD

¹ Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Clinical Research Unit, Solbiate Arno, Italy

² Hemodynamic Laboratory Ltd, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russian Federation

³ Department of Cardiology and Department of Medicine and Surgery, Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

⁵ Russian Cardiology Research and Production Complex, Department of New Diagnostic Methods, Moscow, Russian Federation

⁶ Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Department of Internal Medicine Propaedeutics, Moscow, Russian Federation

⁷ Centro di Riferimento Regionale per l'Ipertensione Arteriosa, Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Unità Operativa di Nefrologia ed Ipertensione, Palermo, Italy

⁸ Spedali Civili and University of Brescia, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche and Medicina 2, Brescia, Italy

⁹ Lomonosov Moscow State University Clinic, Moscow, Russian Federation

¹⁰ South Ural State Medical University, Department of Outpatient Therapy and Clinical Pharmacology, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

¹¹ University of Guadalajara, Department of Physiology, Guadalajara, Mexico

¹² L.A. Ohanesyan Institute of Cardiology, Center of Preventive Cardiology, Yerevan, Armenia

¹³ Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Coimbra , Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

¹⁴ Clínica da Aveleira, Instituto de Investigação e Formação Cardiovascular, Coimbra, Portugal

*these authors contributed equally